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Beer of the Week: Magnolia Brewery Quadlibet for Tenderfeet

The bad news is that SF Beer Week has come and gone. The good news? You're probably a lot less hungover. Wait, we still have another week of Strong Beer Month? Ok, scratch that last thing we said about fewer hangovers. The good news is that there's still gobs of delicious beer to consume throughout ... More >>

SF Beer Week: Thursday Event Roundup

All right, Lothario, we already know what you're thinking. It's Valentine's Day and you want to woo that special someone while enjoying the bounty of SF Beer Week. It's your lucky day. The beer week schedule has more beer and chocolate pairing events than you can shake a long-stemmed rose at. But, w ... More >>

SF Beer Week: Wednesday Event Roundup

It's SF Beer Week humpday! We understand if you're feeling a bit run down. A steady diet of beer can do that. Take it easy today with three events that offer unique, rare beers and don't require a BART ride away from the city. See also: Strong Beer Month -- Your Beer Week Training Regimen SF Beer ... More >>

SF Beer Week: Tuesday Event Roundup

If it hasn't become obvious already, SF Beer Week isn't simply a celebration of San Francisco beer, or even Bay Area beer in general. While the calendar surely has a local focus (and rightly so), many breweries from throughout California, neighboring states, and even other countries have traveled ma ... More >>

New Albion: Historic Local Ale Comes Back to Life

Why American Craft Beer is Better Than Ever: A Brewer's Manifesto

When someone says "I don't like beer" my reaction is almost always the same: "Challenge accepted!" It's not that the so-called beer-hater doesn't like beer -- it's that they don't like any of the beers they've had up until now. Chances are, it's been a pretty narrow selection of what's out there. ... More >>

Beer of the Week: Boston Beer Company Revives Historic New Albion Ale

All right class, it's time for a history lesson. Can anybody tell me which brewery is acknowledged as the first modern microbrewery in the United States? If you answered New Albion Brewing Company, you get an A. Does somebody know where the brewery was located? Yes, right in our backyard in Sonoma! ... More >>

Bear in Heaven: Show Preview

Praise for Bay Area Brewers and Chefs at the Great American Beer Festival

Disney may have already trademarked the phrase, but we're pretty sure that Denver's Great American Beer Festival is actually the "happiest place on Earth." As soon as the doors open, thousands of wide-eyed beer aficionados storm the enormous hall, gleefully hustling to their favorite brewery booth f ... More >>

Where to Celebrate Oktoberfest in S.F.

It's the most magical time of the year, at least for those of us who love liters of German beer flowing like water: Oktoberfest! Like the good festival city it is, San Francisco has plenty of options for celebrating the traditional German party, from the official Oktoberfest by the Bay to more sedat ... More >>

Beer of the Week: Firestone Walker Double DBA

In today's booming craft beer renaissance, there are plenty of breweries whose reputation is staked on brewing one style of beer particularly well. Some brewers make a name for themselves by almost exclusively brewing dry, West Coast IPAs. Others amass a following with a sludgy imperial stout that p ... More >>

Drink: Session Beers: When the Best Drink Isn't the Most Extreme

Planning for SF Beer Week Day 6: Gypsies and Nostalgia

​SF Beer Week is officially half way over. By this point, you've become something of a gypsy yourself: a beer nomad who wanders between tastings and beer dinners, you haven't changed your clothes, shaved or showered in five days. You've come to resemble Jack Sparrow, but with less eyeliner and, so ... More >>

SF Beer Week: Weekend Update Edition

You made it! You've gone through nearly a year of SF Beer Week (http://sfbeerweek.org/) withdrawal. The 355 days of cold sweats, long nights, and detox shakes are about to pay off in a big way. Get all your errands out of the way now, because for the next ten days you won't have time for petty incon ... More >>

At The Bay Brewed, Rock Out With Your Craft Beer Out

We know you like to rock. Perhaps you're reading this from your cubicle, and your colleagues have no idea there's an Iron Maiden t-shirt lurking underneath your sweater vest. You love live music, but every time you reach the front of the line at a concert concession stand, you're faced with overpric ... More >>

Oktoberfest Rings In the New Beer -- Now in September!

Werner Heiber / ShutterstockIt's that time of year again​If you're anything like us, you suffer through the 11 months of the year when it's inappropriate to wear a dirndl. It's finally time to dust off those frilly garments and drink beer from an assortment of over-sized glassware. Since you ... More >>

New Book Teaches the Alcoholic Art of Beer Brewing

Just Brew It. ​The best part about beer has always been, hands down, drinking it. But for many thousands of Americans, brewing beer is just as rewarding. Brewing is an intellectual experience -- it's an art, a science, a study of history, a mastery of chemistry, and a craft. And while drinki ... More >>

Meet the Bloggers: Jason Henry

Jesse HirschJason Henry really, really loves beer.​You read them here, now find out who the hell they are: We give you the diverse group of men and women who cover the local food and drink scene for you on SFoodie. Jason Henry Blogs about: beer Jason Henry swears he isn't beer-obsessed. Pat ... More >>

The 'Homebrew Chef' Brews Up 12 Courses at the Toronado Belgian Beer Dinner

​There's beer dinners, and then there's Sean Paxton's beer dinners. Paxton (aka, The Homebrew Chef), started preaching the gospel of beer and food pairing well before the trend entered our public consciousness. When not recording his "Home Brewed Chef" show for the Brewing Network/, Paxton d ... More >>

Drink 2011: In Craft Brewing, the Meek Inherit the Earth

Eat Grilled Cheese, Get Toasted

John Birdsall​Grilled Cheese and Craft Beer Pairing Where: American Grilled Cheese Kitchen, 1 South Park (at Second St.), 243-0107 When: Sun., Feb. 13, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Cost: $30 The rundown: AGCK is commemorating SF Beer Week with a sandwich and brew matchup, but unlike at stuffy wine pai ... More >>

Prime Your Liver: SF Beer Week Returns, Feb. 11-20

San Francisco Brewers Guild​In just a few short weeks, San Francisco will transform into a beer-soaked playground for SF Beer Week, Feb. 11-20. During the 10-day "week," he Bay Area becomes ground zero for brewers and craft beer aficionados spoiled for choice among hundreds of events. If your ... More >>

Today: Organic Brewers Converge on Ferry Building for Eco Tasting

MateVeza's organic India Pale Ale.​Between the World Series and Halloween we've got a lot to be excited about 'round here. If you have time between getting your Snooki or The Situation costume together and painting a sign with clever wordplay involving Jonathan Sanchez, take a moment to celebr ... More >>

NorCal Brewers Score Big at the Great American Beer Festival

Brian YaegerSocial Kitchen brewmaster Rich Higgins, manning the SF Brewers Guild booth in Denver.​As the 51-week wait for next year's 30th Great American Beer Festival begins, let's look back at the last few days in Denver, where 462 breweries converged inside the Colorado Convention Center, a ... More >>

Bear Republic Previews 23 Brews for This Year's Great American Beer Fest

Brian YaegerHealdsburg's Bear Republic Brewing is entering 23 of its brews in this month's Great American Beer Festival in Denver.​At last year's Great American Beer Festival, Bear Republic Brewing's Racer 5 IPA took home a gold medal, not for American India Pale Ale, but for American-style St ... More >>

Marin Brewing Co.'s Arne Johnson

Arne Jonson's been brewmaster at Marin Brewing Co. for 15 years.​Brendan Moylan founded Marin Brewing Co. in 1989 and has since launched Moylan's in Novato. Fifteen years ago, Arne Johnson became the brewmaster at Moylan's Larkspur original, where the always-sunny patio is a favorite ferry des ... More >>

Tasting Blind: Our Panel Rates Summer Beers

Brian YaegerRigorous steps were taken to assure impartiality.​For this month's blind beer-tasting, rather than focus on a specific style, and since we just celebrated the solstice with on-again, off-again warm weather, we lined up a mixed six-pack of seasonal summer beers. Here's how the Brewe ... More >>

Fatted Calf's Plinywurst: Pastured Pork Plus Pliny the Elder Double IPA

Fatted CalfThe dogs contain Russian River Brewing's Pliny the Elder double IPA.​In this food-forward haven of ours, sometimes we need to take a step back from dolled up offal and go back to where the whole "lips, snouts, and asses" thing started: the hot dog. Of course, tube steaks have progre ... More >>

Half right: New brewpubs attempt to reach bistro-level quality, with mixed results

Altoids Stout and Chipotle Mead: A Report from the National Homebrewers Conference

Homebrewers AssociationEvery year, beer hobbyists from all over show up to geek out.​MINNEAPOLIS ―Once a year, brewmasters take a back seat to those who brew in the trenches (read: kitchens or garages). At the National Homebrewers Conference (NHC), organized by the American Homebrewers Assoc ... More >>

21st Amendment Taps Liquid Gold, aka Imperial Jack

Brian YaegerImperial Jack ESB, the World Beer Cup's favorite "Other Strong Beer."​Yesterday, 21st Amendment tapped the beer that earned it a gold medal at the World Beer Cup back in April. Unlike other brewing competitions, this biannual event awards medals to the best of the best from over 64 ... More >>

If You Didn't Get Tix to Giants Brewfest, There's Always Next Week in Oakland

francobobfred II/FlickrSummer essential: Chugging beer in some stadium parking lot.​The only thing more exciting than the prospect of a series the Giants can actually sweep (vs. the cellar-dwelling D'backs) is great, free-ish beer beforehand in the form of Saturday's first annual Giants Brewfe ... More >>

Our Blind Tasting of Pale Ales Reveals Wide Disparity

Brian YaegerThe lineup.​For this month's blind beer-tasting, we're not going beyond the pale ― we're going right to it. Made with lightly roasted malts, pale ales originated in England as a mellow alternative to dark mild and porter ales. They might have been invented in Burton-on-Trent, Eng ... More >>

Meet the Five Beers Rich Higgins Has Wrought for Social Kitchen & Brewery

Brian YaegerSocial Kitchen's brewmaster Rich Higgins is aiming for supple, food-friendly beers.​After seemingly eons of anticipation, Social Kitchen & Brewery commences its conviviality next Tuesday, April 20 to coincide with the SF Brewers Guild's monthly Meet the Brewers event. The city's si ... More >>

Don't Sound Like a Tool: How to Pronounce German Beers

​Don't Sound Like a Tool is SFoodie's series of audio pronunciation guides to sort-of-common-but-not-obvious words we keep encountering on wine lists and menus. No more shame, no more pointing, no more taking on the accent of a language you don't speak.Something always happens to us when orderi ... More >>

The Year in Beer With San Francisco's Scribe of the Suds

Brian Yaeger, the Richmond District's Bard of Beer​ Much time -- and even more beer -- has passed (pun intended) since we last caught up with Brian Yaeger. The San Francisco writer is a hero of sorts to folks who enjoy drinking beer and hope to make a living off of this skill."It's amazing how man ... More >>

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Best Beer Bar

Stick to the Suds

Eldos Grill & Brewery

Best San Francisco Beer

Speakeasy Brewing's Prohibition Ale

A Tall Cool One

The B Spot

Best Microbrew

Mendocino Brewing Co.'s Eye of the Hawk Ale

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